Aristodemo Costoli (1803–1871) was an Italian sculptor who spent his entire career in the city ofFlorence. He is also known for attempting in 1843 to clean and conserve the famedRenaissance-era sculptureDavid byMichelangelo; unfortunately hishydrochloric acid cleaning solution removed the stone's waxy protective coating and left the surface pitted and porous.^[1][2] His students includedEmilio Zocchi,Girolamo Masini,Augusto Rivalta and his sonLeopoldo Costoli.

Florence

• Galileo inTribune of Galileo, at Museo della Specola (1832);
• Christophe Colomb, atmusée du Nouveau Monde,La Rochelle (France);
• Pegasus, inGiardino di Boboli;
• tondo dedicated toArnolfo di Cambio inDuomo di Firenze;
• bust of Cosimo Buonarroti and Rosina Vendramin, inCasa Buonarroti;^[3]
• Monument to L. Matteucci (1845), inBadia Fiorentina;^[4]
• Discovery of America, in Hall 5 of Galleria d'arte moderna (Firenze) inPalazzo Pitti;
• Monument to Galileo, niche in the ground-floor courtyard of theUffizi Gallery (1851);^[5]
• Jeremiah (Palazzo Pitti);
• Funeral Monument to Della Gherardesca (Santa Maria del Fiore a Lapo);
• Bas-relief ofVilla Paolina (Sesto Fiorentino).

Other cities in Italy

• Genoa:Prudence andColumbus placing flag on Beach (1862), monument toChristopher Columbus.
• Ancona:Monument to Cavour (1868), with statue dedicated toCavour and two bas-reliefs, at Cavour square.
• Pisa:Monument to Angelica Catalani (1859), atCamposanto.
• Lucca:Bust of Leopold II, Museo nazionale di villa Guinigi.

Other countries:

• Santiago, Chile:Monument to Pedro de Valdivia
• Saint Petersburg:Memorial to Ekaterina Arkadievna Kotchoubey and her daughter Vera
• France,La Rochelle,Musée du Nouveau Monde,La découverte de l'Amérique, marbre blanc, 78x40x26 cm^[6]
• Private commissions, England.

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  Galileo Galilei (Museo della Specola, Florence)
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  Galileo Galilei (Museo della Specola, Florence)
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  Leopold II (Museo della Specola, Florence)
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  Cavour (Cavour square, Ancona)
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  Congress of Paris (Cavour square, Ancona)
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  Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy (Cavour square, Ancona)
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  Geremia (Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
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  Angelica Catalani (Camposanto, Pisa)
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  Memorial Della Gherardesca (Santa Maria del Fiore a Lapo, Florence)
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  Bust of Cosimo Buonarroti (Casa Buonarroti, Florence)
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  Pedro de Valdivia (Santa Lucía hill, Santiago de Chile)
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  Arnolfo di Cambio (Florence, cathedral)
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  Galileo Galilei(galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
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  Christopher Columbus monument in Genua, (only two statues on the basement)

• Mackay, James,The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977

• 1803 births
• 1871 deaths
• Sculptors from Florence
• 19th-century Italian sculptors
• Italian male sculptors
• 19th-century Italian male artists
• Artists from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany

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